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by snapetom 6y ago
Wow, that still seems rather weak and reckless. First they describe what Controlled Digital Lending is - one physical copy == one lend. They cite legal experts that agree. That's fine, no one's disagreeing there. Then they go on
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by snapetom 6y ago
In my teens and early 20's, second-hand bookstores were a reliable go-to in the dating bag of tricks for me. The smell, the cramped quarters, the discussion - it was easier to give an air of sophistication and worldliness to impress y
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by snapetom 6y ago
I remember barely getting through the instructions when a lightbulb went off, I said, "oh!", and immediately started juggling. That book explained it so simply. Before that, juggling seemed to be some sort of dark art requiring
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by snapetom 6y ago
I agree. Fielding's dissertation was exactly that - an academic dissertation. A lot of what it proposed wasn't even possible given the languages, software, and protocols. What's important now is that there are REST-ful qua
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by snapetom 6y ago
Ruqqus is nowhere near as bad as voat is. Moreover, in threads, they are well aware of what happened to voat. They know they have to walk a line between free and open speech and not devolving into a haven for nazis and racists. However,
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by snapetom 6y ago
Huh, the moderation issues are one problem with it and now when you put it that way, sounds an awful lot like the moderation system of reddit. And we know how great that is. /s
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by snapetom 6y ago
It's terrible at least in my burbs. The cynic in me thinks that Nextdoor is just proof that the fundamental thing that makes social media terrible - being a megaphone for egos, pettiness, and narcism - are not overcome by real identiti
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by snapetom 6y ago
We have that to a certain extent with Nextdoor. They take precautions on invites, neighborhoods you live in, and names. Yet, it's one of the messiest of clusterfucks.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Haha. Remember when we all thought that the internet was going to spread democracy, open ideas, and freedom? Good times, good times.
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by snapetom 6y ago
I agree on your assessment of Gilbert Strang's courses. So many here on HN recommend Strang's stuff. However, he's kind of the victim of his own success. If you've taken LA in college in the last 10-15 years, or any
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by snapetom 6y ago
Plus, it gave Apple the perception that there's higher demand for Apple products over Microsoft. Some average Joe thinking about a tablet walks by a packed Apple Store and an empty Microsoft store. It's pretty obvious how that i
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by snapetom 6y ago
Oh wow. As of last year, I still had an Olympus C-120 in the glove box of my 1999 Miata. Many, many moons ago, it was recommended that you kept a camera in your car in case you got in an accident. Decades later, I just never bothered to
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by snapetom 6y ago
Cool. Thanks for writing it. It summarizes and collects a lot of issues we were all grumbling about here and there. The main hurdles for Docker are organization, not technical. However, the other issues you bring up are going to be more
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by snapetom 6y ago
A lot of developer-centric focus discussion on how Docker would work (hint: it does), but VirtualBox is still pretty common in the sysadmin world and other industry circles. Moreover, there seems to be no way it will ever work. It will be
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by snapetom 6y ago
I agree 100% about how common it is. The industry also pays lip service about doing something about it. My last job was at a research institution and we had a data ethics czar, who's a very smart (Stats phd) guy and someone I conside
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by snapetom 6y ago
Awesome. Thanks for the explanation.
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by snapetom 6y ago
Thanks. I think I'm a little gun shy right now because last I checked into this (2013ish?) My coworkers were very much Vive over Oculus. I don't want to box myself in on a losing platform, but I guess this is like any other tech
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by snapetom 6y ago
For everyone saying Quest, how safe of a bet is it to support Star Wars Squadrons? I was thinking about eventually getting a Vive rig, but never felt there was a killer app just quite yet. Squadrons got my attention.
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by snapetom 6y ago
As a near-native English speaker, I took German in various degrees from middle school to college. Along the way, I peppered it with French and Spanish. I was terrible with the romance languages, like nearly failed. Oral, written, readin
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by snapetom 6y ago
It's interesting. I was just looking at a user account that had a gazillion post karma, but -10 comment karma. It also created a few subreddits. It's so obvious a content farmer. People moved away from Digg because they impleme
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by snapetom 6y ago
The problem is that both Apple and Wintel were fighting for consumer customers; people that were proficient enough to word process, email, and browse, but not proficient enough to understand chip architecture. They just see a spec and assu
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by snapetom 6y ago
Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but Proxima Centauri B is likely not habitable due to its star blowing away its atmosphere. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerfu...
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by snapetom 6y ago
From my very naive understanding, isn't there a belief that habitable planets are a bit more rare than we thought? Since most stars are red dwarves, the tidal locking zone overlaps the Goldilocks zone. Neither the abstract nor the ph
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by snapetom 6y ago
Don't forget the Bruce Alyward incident.
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by snapetom 6y ago
By the time of the tweet, it was pretty well established that there was at least familial spread (aka human to human) in Wuhan. Everyone raised at eyebrow at the tweet because it goes against all observations on the spread, even from offic
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by snapetom 6y ago
I learned Chinese, for all intents and purposes, as an ABC living in the west. I was taught the traditional way with a brush and calligraphy. In this method, I would agree stroke order and direction is very important. With a physical bru
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by snapetom 6y ago
I agree. I'm going to check this out. I went back to school 10+ years ago after many years in software engineering. I naively thought it would be a good idea to keep notes in LaTeX because 1) I have a hard time reading my own handwrit
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by snapetom 6y ago
Remember when HuffPo was actually a decent, political scoop/gossip site? It was far more balanced then. It got hot when it veered left, but today it's an unexciting story mill. I wonder if that's the path reddit is headed to
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by snapetom 6y ago
I'm confused, too. Shortly after Pao left is when all the quarantining, admin interventions, bannings, and 18+ warnings popped up on reddit. It was clear that reddit felt going mainstream was the only way for profitability. When Pao
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by snapetom 6y ago
A bit skeptical. The biggest advantage for me is the burst rate and live histogram, but the newest Canon 90D, released last year, matches mirrorless FPS and also has a live histogram. The weight's advantage isn't as big of a dea

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